WSP12135

• File Number: 8210.766
• Description: Gunnison River General Publications - Correspondence - Reports - Etc
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Title: Key Documents - Regulated Rivers - Research and Management - Volume 12 - 391-413 - A General Protocol for Restoration of Regulated Rivers
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RESTORATION OF REGULATED RIVERS

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Figure 2. Conceptualized continuum of a large unregulated river showing biophysical gradients and nodes of environmental heteroge-
neity (centres of organization) of the major alluvial reaches. Vertical bars on the plot of maximum temperature represent the annual
range of annual maximum temperature across all habitats at any point in the river continuum. Numbers indicate stream order. The
figure is not drawn to scale; transition reaches are often much longer than inferred

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